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A TWO-DAY MARINE CHRONOMETER
A. Johannsen & Co., No. 5246, circa 1901
The silvered dial signed and numbered A. Johannsen & Co. MAKERS TO THE ADMIRALTY, THE INDIAN GOVT & ROYAL NAVIES OF Italy, Spain & Portugal, 149 Minories, LONDON 5246, Roman hour numerals, gold hour and minute hands, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials with blued steel hands, Earnshaw escapement, cut bimetallic balance with circular heat compensation weights, palladium helical balance spring, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, brass bowl and gimbal in a later plain two-tier mahogany box with external brass drop handles
100 mm. dial diam.
A. Johannsen & Co., No. 5246, circa 1901
The silvered dial signed and numbered A. Johannsen & Co. MAKERS TO THE ADMIRALTY, THE INDIAN GOVT & ROYAL NAVIES OF Italy, Spain & Portugal, 149 Minories, LONDON 5246, Roman hour numerals, gold hour and minute hands, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials with blued steel hands, Earnshaw escapement, cut bimetallic balance with circular heat compensation weights, palladium helical balance spring, spring foot detent with jewelled locking stone, brass bowl and gimbal in a later plain two-tier mahogany box with external brass drop handles
100 mm. dial diam.